Biosketch: Tim Schütz

Tim Schütz is an associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis. He broadly focuses on the development, politics, and governance of digital data infrastructures in urban environments. In his earlier ethnographic work, he helped to establish STS scholarship on “sociotechnical neglect” and “more-than-human-rights“ in the context of the ‘European refugee crisis’. During his graduate training at University of California, Irvine, he has further explored data visualization practices for the research on and governance of air pollution. As a member of DARIAH and the PECE development group, he is highly interested in fostering the use of digital methods and research platforms in the interdisciplinary social sciences. He is also an active member of kritnet, a critical migration research network, where he advocates for open digital infrastructures as part of solidarity cities. Keywords: urban infrastructure; digital methods; data studies; visualization; sociotechnical neglect